Find helpful resources for supporting mental health during pregnancy, including blog posts, apps and tools, peer support groups, podcasts, and TED or TEDx Talks.
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Blog Posts
- Body Image After Pregnancy: How to Reconnect with Yourself?
- How to Cope With Pregnancy After Loss?
- The Silent Panic of a Perfect Pregnancy: Coping With Hidden Fears
- Scared of Birth? How to Manage Tokophobia With Compassion
Pregnancy Mental Health Apps & Tools
- Connect by PSI
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A free perinatal mental-health app from Postpartum Support International. It connects pregnant people with support groups, peer mentors, mental-health resources, helplines, and information about perinatal anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, and other concerns. - MumWell
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A pregnancy and postpartum mental-health platform with emotional-health screening and educational support. It can help someone recognize when anxiety, depression, overwhelm, or other symptoms may need additional professional attention.
Pregnancy Mental Health Peer Support & Support Groups
- PSI Pregnancy Mood Support Group
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A free virtual group specifically for pregnant people experiencing emotional difficulties. Discussions include pregnancy anxiety, depression, physical challenges, complicated feelings about pregnancy, fear of childbirth, and worries about the postpartum period. - PSI Perinatal Mood Support Groups
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Free peer-led online groups for people dealing with stress, overwhelm, anxiety, depression, identity changes, and other emotional challenges during pregnancy and after birth. - PSI Perinatal OCD Support Group
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Specifically for people experiencing intrusive thoughts, obsessions, compulsions, checking, reassurance-seeking, or other OCD symptoms during pregnancy or after birth. An official OCD diagnosis is not required to attend. - PSI Pregnancy After Stillbirth or Infant Loss Group
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A free virtual group for people who are pregnant after experiencing stillbirth or newborn loss. It provides space for the complicated mixture of fear, grief, hope, anxiety, and difficulty trusting that the new pregnancy will be okay. - PSI Early Pregnancy Loss Support
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A support group for people grieving miscarriage or another pregnancy loss at 20 weeks or earlier. It can be helpful when loss has led to grief, guilt, anxiety, trauma symptoms, or fear about becoming pregnant again. - Postpartum Support International — Find Local Support
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Helps people find perinatal mental-health resources in different regions around the world. This can be useful for locating therapists, support organizations, and pregnancy mental-health services closer to home.
Pregnancy Mental Health Podcasts
- Mom and Mind: Pregnancy and Postpartum Depression & Anxiety
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One of the most established podcasts devoted specifically to perinatal mental health. Psychologist Dr. Kat Kaeni discusses pregnancy anxiety, depression, OCD, trauma, pregnancy loss, difficult birth experiences, relationships, treatment, and recovery with specialists and people with lived experience.
- Perinatal Health Anxiety — Mom and Mind
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Focuses on excessive worry about pregnancy, health, medical symptoms, and whether something may be wrong. It discusses how health anxiety can become difficult to control and what can help break the cycle. - Perinatal OCD Explained: When Protective Instincts Turn Into Intrusive Fear — The OCD Whisperer
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Explains the difference between ordinary pregnancy worries and OCD-driven fear. It is especially useful when someone repeatedly checks symptoms, asks for reassurance, searches online, or cannot stop reviewing whether something bad might happen. - Pregnancy After Loss Anxiety — The Worst Girl Gang Ever
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A personal conversation about miscarriage and the persistent anxiety that can follow into another pregnancy. It also discusses feeling unheard in medical settings and advocating for yourself when fear is affecting the pregnancy experience. - Surrender During Pregnancy After Loss — The Pregnancy After Loss Podcast
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Focuses on repetitive worry and negative predictions during pregnancy after miscarriage or stillbirth. It discusses challenging catastrophic thinking and finding ways to live through the current pregnancy without allowing fear to dominate every day. - Becoming a Parent When You Had Difficult Parents — Mom and Mind
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Explores how pregnancy and approaching parenthood can bring unresolved childhood experiences back to the surface. It addresses difficult parents, neglect, abuse, attachment, perfectionism, anxiety, and fears about repeating family patterns.
TED & TEDx Talks About Pregnancy Mental Health
- Breaking Down Stigma Surrounding Perinatal Mood and Anxiety Disorders — Rachael Watters
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Discusses perinatal depression and anxiety and the pressure to hide emotional difficulties because pregnancy and motherhood are expected to be joyful. It encourages recognizing symptoms and seeking treatment rather than struggling privately. - Silently Suffering After Pregnancy Loss — Cassandra Blomberg
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Combines personal experience with discussion of the psychological impact of miscarriage and stillbirth. It addresses grief, silence, isolation, and how pregnancy loss can continue affecting mental health afterward. - What Happens in Your Body During a Miscarriage? — Nassim Assefi & Emily M. Godfrey
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A clear explanation of miscarriage that also addresses the shame and self-blame people may experience afterward. Understanding what actually causes pregnancy loss can be particularly important for people who keep searching for something they did wrong. - The M-Word: Shattering the Silence on Miscarriage — Lisa Hanasono
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Explores the emotional impact of pregnancy loss and why people often grieve privately. It also discusses how silence, insensitive responses, uncertainty, and self-blame can make recovery more difficult.
